Northamptonshire's partnership points to a 14 per cent fall in accidents on roads covered by cameras.

At least one person a week throughout the year is killed on Warwickshire roads and speed is identified as the most lethal factor in more than half of the crashes.

Local drivers may have got used to them but roadside cameras in the county still catch nearly 200 speeding motorists a week.

Most end up with penalty points and a fine and, until now, all that money has gone straight to central government.

Under the agreement between Whitehall and Shire Hall, cash raised from the #60 fixed penalty will help fund the campaign to make motorists drive more responsibly.

The number of cameras and the team of police officers clamping down on speed will both double.

More roads will be altered to make motorists slow down. Speed limits will be reviewed, with some being reduced and a few raised.

John Deegan, Warwickshire County Council's director of planning, transport and economic strategy, said: "New safety cameras will be targeted at locations and roads which have a history of having a high number of accidents."

Sites which will be top of the list include:

* A46 from Stratford to Alcester,

* A452 from Kenilworth to Leamington,

* A426 from Rugby town centre to the M6,

* A5 from Dordon to Nuneaton,

* A444 through Nuneaton.

Chief Supt Jon Bond, who chairs the Warwickshire Casualty Reduction Partnership, said: "We want to make speeding to be seen as anti-social as drink-driving."

He said: "If this means that, even in just one case, I don?t have to knock on the door of a family and give them the news their loved-ones have been killed in a road accident then it will be worth it."

Warwickshire chief constable John Burbeck reiterated the message the campaign was not a backdoor way of raising funds. He said: "This scheme is not designed to catch people out, its aim is to save lives."